Selected Unverified Endorsements

• “A seaworthy masterpiece, provided one has misunderstood both words.”
  — The Marquess’s Maritime Review

• “De Gernon returns with another account of rural men confronting the divine without first informing the relevant authorities.”
  — The Parish Boundary & Constitutional Crisis Quarterly

• “We began reading in the drawing room and finished several hours later in a drainage ditch outside Hedon. No explanation has been forthcoming.”
  — The Country Estate & Inland Maritime Review

• “An intoxicating mixture of prophecy, municipal neglect and the sort of boat one normally finds growing nettles.”
  — The Gentleman’s Boathouse

• "I couldn’t be bothered reading this one."
  — Sarah from East Yorkshire